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It was bugging me that my phone eats out my allowance all the time using data connection. It did that even when I disabled applications background data transfer. I was looking for a feature allowing to disable 3G and 2G data connections allowing WiFi only. When I was buying the phone I thought there is [...]

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The following regular expressions were tested on Gentoo x64 Search for credit card numbers grep -E ‘(^|[[:space:]])[456][[:digit:]]{3}((-|[[:space:]])?[[:digit:]]{4}){3}([[:space:]]|$)’ <filename> Search for IP

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Another story from the mystery category. A Microsoft Small Business Server has been moved from one premises to another twice in the last two weeks. The first time the server was moved and the users confirmed that the server is up and running and all the services working fine. The main service of the server [...]

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In the original configuration the RAID-6 over the 6 disks was build using two different SATA controllers. Four disks were connected to RocketRAID and the other two connected to the integrated Intel SATA. Now, the motherboard has changed to  a new one with 6 SATA connections via the integrated controller. However, it caused tat the [...]

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A new kernel was installed and every package on the system was recompiled… So, here is another attempt. All the files are scp’ed to the second computer onto the RAID-6. And again, there is inconsistency. Tho hashes were calculated OK, all the other FAILED.